American Le Mans Series team ADT Champion Racing will head to this year's Le Mans 24 Hours in the knowledge that it has rejected the opportunity to reunite one of the most s🎶uccessful driver combinations in the race's history.

The team, which has o🍷ne guaranteed entry and expects to be offered a second after next month's Sebring 12 Hours, has opted to pair six-time winner Tom Kristensen with last year's ALMS titleists JJ Lehto and Marco Werner in its #1 car, with Emanuele Pirro, Frank Biela and Allan McNish piloting the second entry at Sebring and, hopefully, Le Mans. Pirro and Biela shared three back-to-back wins at Le Mans with Kristensen between 2000-02, while the Dane took anothꦆer with Bentley in 2003 and made it five in a row with the team Goh Audi last season.

Kristensen and Lehto reform their Sebring winning partnership from 1999, when they shared a BMW V12 LMR withღ Jorg Muller, and will begin their season racing in the US classic, where Kri൩stensen won in 2000 with Audi, next month.

💃Pirro and Biela return full-time to sportscars after a brief spell in the DTM, while McNish moves in the opposite direction, contesting a limited sportscar programmeꦚ while dovetailing the endurance classics with a maiden DTM campaign.